Utah!

[acemario]

Does anyone want a wheaten ameracauna hen. She is 2.5 yrs I believe, but hasn't laid consistently. She just got over a molt. I will ksl her tonight I think. She is really pretty with the floofiest cheeks I've ever seen!

 

[Cynthia12]

You could try park city! Hotels are usually cheep cheep cheep right now in the off season. Makes for a fun weekend getaway.

Ooo, that's a thought!

 

[echipping]

Hi all! I am in Cottonwood Heights (East Salt Lake City area) I see a lot of these posts are from way back when but I am hoping there will be some new local Utah people on here soon to trade Utah winter secrets with! I have 6 chickens in my flock. An Americana, Light Brahma, Silkie Bantam, 2 Buff Orpingtons, an a Giant Blue Cochin.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Hi all! I am in Cottonwood Heights (East Salt Lake City area) I see a lot of these posts are from way back when but I am hoping there will be some new local Utah people on here soon to trade Utah winter secrets with! I have 6 chickens in my flock. An Americana, Light Brahma, Silkie Bantam, 2 Buff Orpingtons, an a Giant Blue Cochin.

Just make sure you are on the last page not the first page We are many!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Everybody doing ok with the cold? Anybody lost any birds? The windchill last night here was awful. I have some 10-12 weeks old already out in the coop and they have a separate light and dog house they are sleeping in, but man they were so cold this morning they were cheeping like mad. And yesterday my frizzle was sitting by the heated water bowl and her butt was frozen to the ground. Apparently some water sloshed out and she sat down and froze there. I lifted her up because she was making such a fuss, and had to pull, and a bunch of feathers came out stuck to that spot. Poor bald bummed baby! She is already molting and bald everywhere else...so she is in the garage warming up for now.

Also, I have these pullets, about 6 months old, raised over summer, and they all sleep in the run on a roost bar and refuse to go in the coop at night. I physically pick them up at 10 pm and set them in the coop and they just run right back out. I thought for sure they would stay in last night, but they stayed out in the run and survived somehow. I left the coop door open overnight for them just in case, but this has never happened before. Is that normal or are my birds just wacko?

 

[echipping]

Ha! Thanks for that tip! I totally was on the first page! Just shows how new I am to this whole "blogging" thing!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Ha! Thanks for that tip! I totally was on the first page! Just shows how new I am to this whole "blogging" thing!

Well glad you made it to the right spot. You are not the first one that has posted something similar and been waaaay back there at the beginning

Now, you are in the happy place ! :cd

 

[themadchicken]

Hi peeps! Just catching up on the post and hoping every one is doing good. I did have to turn on some heaters to keep the water from freezing, man winter came fast! I have a cookie tin heater in with the Quail that keeps the water from freezing and my big water fountain is now sitting on its custom cookie tin base plugged into a thermal cube. I love thermal cubes!!! I have two hens with chicks but they have 60 watt lights in their coops and it seems to be keeping their water free from ice so far. I think i will take the chicks away from one of the hens and put her back with the flock and replace her with a Silkie that has gone broody. I have 16 eggs that are just asking to be hatched. Is anyone else hatching eggs? The last two customers that i have had say they have been looking all over for chicks but cant find any because of the season.
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Diana, the little ones are doing good. I sold the silver partridge Silkie that was in with them so now they only have the splash to keep them company. It is so funny to watch the Silkie chick try to hid under the Serama's, it looks more like its trying to give them piggy back rides.



Anyone else notice this is the same corner that most of my brooder pic's are taken of. It must be the favorite corner no matter the breed.

They seem to start their little lives in this corner. Even the wet chicks just hatched seem to find their way to this corner.

 

[acemario]

No dead birds here... Yet... But I did get a kick out of that poor girl stuck to the floor.

What do you all use as waterers? I am in the market for something that doesn't force me to fill/thaw it every day. Right now I have 2 little chick waterers and a big hanging 5 gallon bucket with nipples. Suggestions? I also have an electrical outlet from my garage to coop that has a heat lamp plugged in for my 9 week old chicks.

 

[themadchicken]

Ace, i have read and seen people use fish tank heaters in the nipple water set up. They use very little power but keep the water above freezing. My hens wont use the nipples because they free range and find water in places i i don't expect. Cookie tin heaters work really good and also produce some heat for younger chicks that like to pile. My big fountain stays ice free even at 10 degrees, and is outside of the coop on the ground. I often have to move snow away from it during the winter so they can find the fresh water. I do keep it a couple feet from the coop so can have easy access to it. During really bad storms they hid under the big coop that stays dry and covered with straw and free from direct wind.